Philosophical
What if nothing is actually a thing?
Same banks, same rocks, same bend in the path. But the water that touched your feet a second ago is already gone. Heraclitus noticed something unsettling about this: the river you're looking at isn't the river you stepped into.
Ever-newer waters flow on those who step into the same rivers.— Heraclitus, Fragment 12
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The thinker
Pre-Socratic Philosopher of Change
Heraclitus of Ephesus (c. 535–475 BCE) was an ancient Greek philosopher known for his doctrine that change is the fundamental nature of reality.
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